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International efforts, such as the Paris Agreement, aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But experts say countries aren’t doing enough to limit dangerous global warming.
January 24, 2005
Budget, Debt, and DeficitsApparently the Federal Reserve is beginning to worry that the Administration is not all that serious about reducing the fiscal deficit ... Wonder why. It seems like Martin Feldstein’s concerns abou…
March 25, 2005
EconomicsIf you think that speculation on real estate has replaced the stock market as the US national pastime, try visiting China.I expected Beijing to be one large construction sites, and was not disappoint…
May 28, 2005
You know, the global norm is not free trade in agriculture ... If China doesn’t want its peasants to compete against subsidized US and European agricultural exports, I suspect that it has a range of …
January 28, 2006
ChinaMax Sawicky noted that key source of recent job creation in the capitalist United States has been the US government, which itself is financed, in no small part by the People's Bank of China. The ex-…
February 8, 2006
Monetary PolicyI am constantly amazed by the concern well paid Wall Street economists display for poor Chinese peasants. China, you see, cannot revalue the RMB without devastating rural China. A revalued RMB wo…